HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Firing Up Your First Impact Game
• Installing a XAMPP server
• Installing the game engine: ImpactJS
• Choosing a script editor
• Running the premade game
• Debugging your game with the browser and ImpactJS
• Debugging with the browser
• Firebug – the Firefox debugger
• Chrome debugger
• Exercises in debugging with Chrome and Firebug
• Debugging with ImpactJS
• Which helpful tools are out there
• Ejecta
• AppMobi
• PhoneGap
• lawnchair
• Scoreoid
• Playtomic
• one.com webhost
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Introducing ImpactJS
• Building your own levels
• Creating, loading, and saving levels in Weltmeister
• Layers and the z axis
• Adding and removing entities and objects
• The collision layer
• Connecting two different levels
• Objects – playable and non-playable characters
• The ImpactJS entity
• Setting up player controls
• Position, acceleration, and speed
• The game's graphics: sprites and animation sheets
• Spawning, health, and death
• The camera view
• The game canvas
• Free to move camera
• Automatically following camera
• Adding music and sound effects
• Playing background music
• Introducing sound effects
• Game physics with Box2D
• Gravity and force
• Collision impact and bounciness
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Let's Build a Role Playing Game
• The RPG game setting
• Building an RPG level
• Adding a playable character
• Introducing a defeatable opponent
• Giving the player some weapons
• Spawning a projectile
• Causing harm with a projectile
• Bringing your NPCs to life with artificial intelligence
• The NPC's behavior
• The NPC's decision making process
• Pickup items to help out your player
• Healing your player with a potion
• Becoming rich with coins
• Keeping score for player feedback
• Transitioning from one area to another
• NPCs and conversation
• The speech balloon
• Adding a talking non-playable character
• The final battle
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Let's Build a Side Scroller Game
• The side scroller game setting
• Preparing the game for Box2D
• Building a side scroller level
• The playable character
• Adding a minor foe
• Introducing formidable weapons
• Shooting a projectile
• Building an actual bomb
• Artificial intelligence
• Pickup items
• Adding a normal crate
• Implementing a healing crate
• Keeping score
• Transitioning from one level to another
• The final battle
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Adding Some Advanced Features to Your Game
• The Start and Game-over screen
• The game's Start screen
• The Victory and Game-over screens
• More advanced debugging options
• Short introduction to unit testing
• Adding your own debug panel to the ImpactJS debugger
• Handling game data
• Adding data to your game
• Using cookies to store data on the player's computer
• Local storage
• Using lawnchair as a versatile way of storing data
• Extra functionalities for the RPG
• Moving the player with a mouse click
• Adding intelligent spawn locations
• Introducing basic conversation
• Adding a basic Head-Up Display
• Artificial intelligence: The hive mind
• Implementing Playtomic for game analytics
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Music and Sound Effects
• Making or buying the music
• Buying tunes and sound effects
• Making a basic tune using FL Studio
• Adding background music to your game
• Playing a sound when an action has happened
• Tips when using sound files in your game
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Graphics
• Making/buying the graphics
• Where to buy graphics
• Introduction to vector graphics
• Creating your own avatar using Adobe Photoshop
• Adding your creation to the RPG
• Hints for graphics in HTML5
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Adapting Your HTML5 Game to the Distribution Channels
• Preparing your game for the web browser
• Preparing our game for mobile web browsers
• Turning the game into a web app for the Google Chrome Web Store
• Pushing your game to Android's Google play store
• Making your game available on Facebook
• Direct canvas game acceleration with AppMobi
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Making Money with Your Game
• Your game development strategy
• Making money with game apps
• Google Play
• iOS App Store
• The Chrome Web Store
• In-game advertising
• Selling distribution rights with MarketJS
• Summary

• Index